Is Amazon an Apple Authorized Reseller? Has anyone purchased from Amazon and gone to Apple.com to get the Leopard upgrade?
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Yes. Amazon.com is an authorized apple reseller. http://wheretobuy.apple.com/Catalog.html
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John. I guess Amazon is still selling Mountain Lion. The upgrade happened two weeks ago ... But if you buy from Amazon, you can make the upgrade later. It's free. I advice you to buy 256GB. I've bought 128GB and now I need an external HD.
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FYI - I preordered mine from Apple in the middle of Jan and just received it this week (2/25). So it isn't just Amazon - I have read posts that say some Apple stores have them - but I think that might be false.
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I ordered a 32gb on the 16th also. The listing said they were arriving on the 17th. Since I'm a prime customer I expected it by the end of the week. I received an email on the 20th telling me that there was a delay and I had until 10/20/08 to cancel because the estimated ship date was NOV. 8. Funny, the listing still says 'ships in 8 to 9 days'. I went with Amazon for the no tax, free two day shipping. Now, I'll just go to Apple and pay the tax. I've been an Amazon customer since they were shipping out of a garage. This is the first time this has happened.
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It appears to be the same. This isn't shipped directly from Amazon, though, so it's up to the third party seller to decide on their shipping costs. Don't forget to add sales tax. Apple seems to be the better deal right now.
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I wonder how often these rebates come again. The current rebate will expire before OS X Leopard is released (which is the earliest that these machines can come pre-installed with the OS).
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My conecern with ordering from someone else such as 6ave on amazon's site is I don't think I'm still considered to be ordering from an authorized apple reseller in case something ever came up.
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I just checked the Apple Store and Amazon is authorized for Macs and Ipods but not iPads.
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At this point, Apple seems to be sold out everywhere (Apple Retail Stores, Apple.com, Best Buy, etc.) and I was told by Apple that they are backordered 3-4 weeks. I don't know about Amazon.com's receipt of additional orders but I can imagine Apple would sell through themselves first before giving to other retailers. With that said, everyone I've spoken to at Apple has said the fastest way to get one is through their online store.
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Did you order from Apple or Amazon? Placed my order 1 from Amazon back in January, have not been notified yet for shipping date
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I ordered mine on Sept 21 and still have had no luck, unfortunately, I can't just cancel my order and buy straight from apple because of some amazon gift cards I used to purchase it. When these gift cards are gone, I hope to not be doing much, if any, more business with amazon.
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there does not seem to be a way to pre-order the fully installed imac leopards either even on apple.com .
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Amazon is an authorized reseller. We got the free Lion upgrade for the laptop we purchased during the Kindle special offer.
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Amazon now shows only 16 Imacs available and it says "order soon". Usually when they are running low and expect to get more it says "more on the way" after "order soon". I wonder if this is a sign that Apple is putting out a refresh soon?
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Hey - I was going to tell everyone - DO NOT BUY LEOPARD FOR MORE THAN 29.00. Apple if you call them will sell you a copy of the Snow Leopard for 29.00. I just bought mine today due to some bought software that wouldn't work with 10.5.8
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I rec'd my iMac 11/6 and it still had Tiger installed. I ordered the $10 + tax upgrade from Apple and it arrived within a few days. Installation took about 90 min. and was very easy. However, if I had it to do over I might stick with the Tiger system a little longer. The reason is Tiger being a mature OS is virtually bug free, where as the brand new leopard will have some bugs to work. Therefore, I would suggest ordering iMac with Tiger and wait a few weeks to order the grade. By then Apple should have fixes in place for a problems that may arrise.
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Bought mine at Best Buy two weeks ago and it also had Snow Leopard. Updated all software and contacted apple for the free upgrade that they all are eligible for. They sent me a code a day later and was able to download off the app store in 3 hrs and another half to install. It's up and running now with Lion.A different keyboard would be nice but its a great machine, why wait?